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p.1 #1 · How many use live view to shoot

I nearly always use live view to focus my MF lenses and then close it and fire in the normal way. How many of you actually take the shot while Live View is in operation and do you think there is any advantage seeing as the mirror is locked up during exposure? Obviously I`m talking non moving subjects like landscapes.

Also, if you use exposure simulation, focus and then stop down without turning live view off and back on again do you find the exposure OK. From what I can gather the camera meters just before taking the image so the simulation doesn`t effect the actual shot?

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Nov 13, 2009 at 08:46 AM

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p.1 #2 · How many use live view to shoot

I use live-view 90% of the time to manual focus and I don't have problems getting the right exposure (I have a 5D MkII). There's also the advantage that, since the mirror is already up, the shot will not suffer from mirror-slap movement (like shooting with mirror lock-up).

Nov 13, 2009 at 09:40 AM

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p.1 #3 · How many use live view to shoot

I use LV too quite often (say, 80% of the time), as I have an XSi sometimes I miss the focus when at f/1.2 due to its tiny viewfinder (the only real drawback of this camera IMO).

Nov 13, 2009 at 01:12 PM

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p.1 #4 · How many use live view to shoot

I use it about 50% of the time on my 5D II. I know there is a ton of chatter from folks who have no use for LV, but I think its a great feature.

Nov 13, 2009 at 09:24 PM

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p.1 #5 · How many use live view to shoot

I use it for still stuff, while I use the viewfinder for things/people in motion. So in a dark Norwegian winter I think I use it about 40 percent. I do find the exposure/metering to be less trustworthy when using LV than viewfinder, dont know why.

Nov 13, 2009 at 10:04 PM

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p.1 #6 · How many use live view to shoot

I use it with PC-E and macro lenses.

Nov 13, 2009 at 11:05 PM

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p.1 #7 · How many use live view to shoot

For me if I use a tripod I use live view, but if I am handholding I use the viewfinder.

Nov 14, 2009 at 12:20 AM

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p.1 #8 · How many use live view to shoot

Almost 100% liveview (and tripod), and I take the shot with LV in operation. Most of the time I'm bracketing so the mirror stays up and the 3 shots are just taken in succession.

Mike

Nov 14, 2009 at 01:59 AM

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p.1 #9 · How many use live view to shoot

ovredal73 wrote:
I use it for still stuff, while I use the viewfinder for things/people in motion. So in a dark Norwegian winter I think I use it about 40 percent. I do find the exposure/metering to be less trustworthy when using LV than viewfinder, dont know why.

Is that maybe because the light is entering through the viewfinder when your eye is not against it?

Nov 14, 2009 at 07:52 AM

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p.1 #10 · How many use live view to shoot

Thanks for your replies.

What made me ask is that although I use live view all the time to focus as I said i usually turn it off to shoot. The other day my wife and I were walking a local forest, I took a few images of her (tripod mounted) and she wanted a couple of shots of me, she wasn`t tall enough to see through the view finder without lowering the tripod so I just set up live view and told her to frame up on the lcd which she did and took some shots. The images were very sharp.

Nov 14, 2009 at 08:22 AM

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p.1 #11 · How many use live view to shoot

dave chilvers wrote:
ovredal73 wrote:
I use it for still stuff, while I use the viewfinder for things/people in motion. So in a dark Norwegian winter I think I use it about 40 percent. I do find the exposure/metering to be less trustworthy when using LV than viewfinder, dont know why.

Is that maybe because the light is entering through the viewfinder when your eye is not against it?

Wow, you might be right, never thought that to be an issue on such a camera for some reason, - I will try out if that is the case. Thanks

Nov 14, 2009 at 09:28 AM

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p.1 #12 · How many use live view to shoot

When I used the 1ds and 1ds2 bodies (no LV) I used to close the finder shutter after composing the photo to prevent this (once again, almost 100% on a tripod).

Mike

Nov 14, 2009 at 11:32 AM

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p.1 #13 · How many use live view to shoot

If my E-30's on the tripod, I'm using LV, I don't use LV much handheld with the E-30 due to shutter lag issues. The G1 of course is 98% LV use (the other 2% is AF hipshots) but the *IstDS is 0% LV but it doesn't get used much.

Nov 14, 2009 at 01:52 PM

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p.1 #14 · How many use live view to shoot

I use live view sometimes. It is both fun and helpful.

Nov 14, 2009 at 01:58 PM

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p.1 #15 · How many use live view to shoot

I probably don't use it often enough. I use it for tripod work and macro's sometimes. I have an angle finder that I like to use, but I got some great shots with LV that would have been very difficult even with the angle finder.

Nov 14, 2009 at 02:03 PM

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p.1 #16 · How many use live view to shoot

The mirror is up in Live View so light can't enter the camera from the VF.

When in Live View, I use the live histogram and bracket if necessary.

-Eric

Nov 14, 2009 at 04:15 PM

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p.1 #17 · How many use live view to shoot

Eric Gottesman wrote:
The mirror is up in Live View so light can't enter the camera from the VF.

When in Live View, I use the live histogram and bracket if necessary.

-Eric

Yeh! but unless I`m mistaken, the metering is done the viewfinder side of the focus screen which makes it subject to light entering

Nov 14, 2009 at 04:24 PM

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p.1 #18 · How many use live view to shoot

dave chilvers wrote:
Eric Gottesman wrote:
The mirror is up in Live View so light can't enter the camera from the VF.

-Eric

Yeh! but unless I`m mistaken, the metering is done the viewfinder side of the focus screen which makes it subject to light entering
Also, the seal dividing the viewfinder from the sensor area is not perfect. It will actually allow some light to leak in. This is why the nicer camera bodies, like the D700, have a mechanical blind that you can close over the eyepiece for long exposures.

Nov 15, 2009 at 04:04 AM

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p.1 #19 · How many use live view to shoot

dave chilvers wrote:
Eric Gottesman wrote:
The mirror is up in Live View so light can't enter the camera from the VF.

When in Live View, I use the live histogram and bracket if necessary.

-Eric

Yeh! but unless I`m mistaken, the metering is done the viewfinder side of the focus screen which makes it subject to light entering

When in liveview, the camera uses the sensor for metering like P&S digicams.

Nov 15, 2009 at 04:12 AM

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p.1 #20 · How many use live view to shoot

Oh, and I also use live view quite often when shooting with my old lenses. It's difficult with moving subjects, due to the induced shutter lag, but I can much more clearly see what is in focus in the first place.

I used to unabashedly trash live view whenever the topic came up. But its virtues are slowly making themselves clear to me. Hmm. Maybe someday I'll respect EVFs too! Hmm, nahhh!

Nov 15, 2009 at 04:22 AM

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